Vincent's shaking did seem to help out somewhat, a soft "Hm...?" coming out of the mouth of the sleeping teacher. Her eyes flickered open, and their left arm flew up to catch the prop Angelo had decided to throw. She was now fully aware of the situation, scanning her classroom to search for the one who threw it. The woman's eyes settled on a black haired boy, the one sitting next to Ethel. "Try that again, and you'll be having detention." Was all the woman needed to say to them, raising herself up from the chair and going over to the trash bin to throw away that paper ball. Her head turned back towards Vincent. "Thank you for waking me up. Unlike a certain someone, at least you're polite." The redhead beckoned the young boy to get back to his seat, then looked over the entire class room once more.

"Welcome first years! Don't screw up." was her first opening line, looking extremely bored already. "So the school wants you all to call me Miss Rayne, or whatever, but just say Mei. 'Cause that's my name. Mei Rayne. Anyway," Mei strolled over to the front of her desk, leaning back against it for a little support. "Let's just get things underway. I'm not a big fan of student introductions, plus you should all know each other's names anyway if you'd paid attention during your first duels. Fusion summoning! That's what this is about." Mei jumped from one subject to another, carelessly merging sentences even if it made no sense. "Half of you know what it is, the other half doesn't. So let's get this underway, she seemed to perk up a little, turning on her heel and pulling out a remote. With the click of a button the gigantic screen in the middle of the room lit up, revealing the monsters "Curse of Dragon" and "Gaia the Fierce Knight".

"A fusion summon is the act of merging monsters together using the spell card, Polymerization." On cue, the mentioned card popped up on the screen in between the two monster cards. "If you activate it, and have a Fusion Monster in your extra deck, you can fusion summon using monsters from your hand or field." With another press, Poly lit up on the screen and a colorful vortex opened up behind the trio of cards. The two normal monsters swirled into it, then created a new monster in the form of Gaia the Dragon Champion.

"Basic stuff, right? Fusion monsters you can spot using their purple borders, unique to them. Now that we have the BORING stuff out the way," Mei grinned, turning back around to face her students. "Why don't we demonstrate it live?" After asking that rhetorical question, something slid out from underneath Mei's sleeve. Five card slots suddenly unwrapped themselves in front of said sleeves, held by only a single thin metal tube. A very minimalist duel disk, which wasn't fit to actually duel with. "First, I'll summon three monsters on my field." On said field came the trio of Jack's, King's and Queen's Knight. Said field was also the one in the middle of the arena, located between the two sets of benches. "From my hand, Polymerization." The spell card popped up behind the three, and a vortex of light to accompany it. The trio started to deform and swirled together in the colours Red, Yellow and Blue before turning together into a swirling ball of light. "Fusion summon! Arcana Knight Joker now comes to the field." A royal looking swordsmen stepped out of the vortex, brandishing a blade much too large for the hand that carried it and an armor painted black, with frills of brown adoring it's royal status.

"And that, is a fusion summon. Now I all want you to take notes of this, and then we'll continue on to write down different Fusion monsters and their materials." True to form for being the first lesson, these explanations were all very basic and general, meant for those who'd never encountered things such as these before. Arcana Knight Joker left the field by fading out of existence, and Mei continued to give lessons much in this style for the rest of the hour. Sometimes she'd demonstrate the fusion monsters she was talking about, or go into more depth as to why certain monsters are the way they are. They avoided much of fusion, such as the various spell cards used and the monsters that could substitute as materials, intending to talk about that in another lesson.

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Whenever the group of kids finished Fusion summoning, most of the rest of the day would be pretty uneventful. The last lesson of the day was a two-hour course on Action Dueling, if the D-Ciever was to be believed. They'd just gotten out of English class, the teacher there being the very same emotionless one they'd encountered on the first day. The next class they would take was inside of a building on the outskirts of the main one, in the Action Duel arena not too far into the desert. The arena was a few hundred meters away, and the students got plenty of time to make their way over. The Action Dueling arena was ginormous, having an open-roof stadium spanning about 9000 square meters for just the field alone. The thing itself was pretty bleak, being a boring black floor with nothing on it while an enormous amount of seats were built into the walls around it. Nothing impressive to say the least.

Standing at the entrance was a beast of a man, though not quite Transformer levels yet. Having an army cut made it seem as though they had no hair, though it was just an illusion with the man's blond hairs being hidden due to how terribly bright the sun was. A dogtag hung from their neck, resting atop a sleeveless shirt painted a shade of dark green. His pants were continuing the whole 'Army' look, having a cameo pattern and colour scheme and looking so smooth you'd thing it was unable to bend. He'd easily tower over any student, standing firm in the ground with his wooden sandals. This individual stared straight in front of him, waiting for the students to arrive.

Angelo smiled even as Ethel ignored him still he wasn't going to give up on her no matter how much she may have wanted him to. Angelo was stubborn that way after all and even if she said that she didn't want the deck she chose it regardless of what she says it means she wanted that deck so on the inside she must have a friendly side. Angelo laughed a little when the teacher caught his paper ball damn that was a good catch Angelo said ignoring the threat of detention he was just impressed with how the teacher was able to catch that half asleep. As he listened to the rest of the lesson taking notes as one would expect.

As Angelo went through the rest of the classes no problem he noticed he was going to be taking an action dueling course which was interesting. He has only heard of action dueling and thought it would be interesting Angelo was a turbo duelist no question but that didn't mean he wouldn't find it interesting to learn further down the line. As Angelo walked outside heading towards the stadium noticing that it wasn't far from the dessert he looked to see a beast standing in the front of the doors into the stadium looking like he was in the military. Although if this was an action dueling course it could be his stage persona. When he got their he gave the man a salute thinking it appropriate given the attire then said damn, what the hell do you eat? you are damn imposing Angelo said with a grin deciding against calling him a beast since it may give the wrong impression but he decided to go with a compliment saying he is imposing hoping that this teacher was more friendly then the fusion teacher but given his stature Angelo could be wrong...

Camryn had arrived at the Fusion Summoning class a few minutes before the teacher had woken up, and took a seat in the back corner, where she could lounge against the wall. Her next classes had been wholly uneventful, though someone had seen fit to challenge the math professor to a duel. They had promptly been wrecked by the math teacher, and class had gone on as normal.

"Let's see, final class... Ooh, Action Dueling! That should be a treat, even if I'm not super interested in it." She decided to get a head start on making her way to the stadium, since it didn't look like anyone she knew was around. As she got to the front of the stadium, she saw two people; an absolutely huge man who looked like he had been given an honorable discharge, and another student. She figured she may as well introduce herself, so she tapped on the student's shoulder and said "Hey! I'm Camryn. Who're you?" She mentally kicked herself for sounding like a little kid, but figured that the damage was already done.

A couple pieces of toast in her mouth and Maisy was off, darting into the elevator as quickly as she could. Better to be super-duper early than be super-duper on-time. Multi-tasking, she munched on three pieces at a time while looking at her D-Ciever. "H'okay, sho firsht ish Fewshuan Cwass..." she mumbled, eating the pieces of toast like they were sheets of unwanted copies of Fake Trap, and she was a paper shredder. A very hungry paper shredder. Once she was done, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, jogging to the very empty classroom and...saw the teacher asleep. Crossing her arms, she figured this was a definite way of telling her that maybe today super-duper-early was super-duper-not-gonna-happen. As such, she figured it'd be best to go wash her hands and powder her nose while she had time. And maybe do some thorough reading on her D-Ciever at the same time.

Reading up on her schedule, she at least had an idea of what to expect, and promptly put it back in her hand bag before leaving the bathroom, after washing her hands like a civilized person. She sat through the fusion class without a word, silently nodding. She'd picked up most of the basics from watching and studying pros, but fundamentals should always be re-enforced. She had to resist the urge to peek at other students from behind her books after English class, but finally, she got to the class she was most excited about: Action dueling. Skipping all the way to the class, she blushed happily. This was gonna be great. And then Guile was her teacher. And he was kinda scary. Shakily, she stood at attention, back straight, arms at her side, sweating a bit. She wasn't sure if she was about to get recruited, chewed up and spit out, or run through basic. Or all three.

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Angelo didn't notice the new girl until she tapped his shoulder drawing his attention away from the military killing machine that was their teacher. She introduced herself as Camryn, it's a nice name and she seemed to be in a nice mood so he decided why not tall to someone since it never hurts to have another friend to duel with. He smiled and held out his hand for a shake nice to meet you, my name is Angelo Angelo said to get with a smile. It will be nice to have a conversation today...

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Needless to say, the arrival of Mary proved to be an annoyance to Venwyn, probably stemming from the fact that that was the least discrete entrance he had ever see, and yet she played it off as though it was nothing.

"Yo. What's up, cuz?"

Venwyn remained silent for a moment, simply staring at Mary with an irritated expression.

"You know what's 'up, cuz'. You're not. Being. Discrete."

Venwyn was about to go onto a sermon regarding the values and practices of the Ael Clan, something that Mary would've already heard before, although Venwyn was probably the only one of younger members of the clan to memorize it in its entirety, despite not needing to. It was a lecture that Venwyn would commonly repeat whenever his siblings did something that he considered "wrong."

It also lasts for around 30 minutes.

However, just as he was about to begin, someone had gone and woken the teacher. Someone else had also tried with an... alternative method. Suffice to say, it didn't really work out as well as it should've, and the boy was threatened with detention. Still, Venwyn was impressed with the reflexes the teacher had, to catch the paper ball on such short notice was something exceptional. It was impressive enough that Venwyn continued to pay attention throughout the lesson. Fusion Summoning wasn't something he was particularly interested in, in addition to the fact that the class seemed to cater to those who didn't quite understand Fusion Summoning, unlike Venwyn. Perhaps they'd save the more complex stuff for the next Fusion Summoning class?

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Venwyn, alongside the other students, systematically attended each of the lessons with the assistance of the Duel Transceiver. Aside from lessons, it also served as a social device of sorts, although Venwyn was yet to get into that social aspect with anyone just yet. He looked at the Duel Transceiver again, this time he was supposed to attend an Action Dueling course that would last for two hours. With his signature puff of smoke (needs some sort of name at this point), he made his move to the Action Dueling arena.

Once again, he wasn't the first to arrive at the entrance. In a burst of smoke, he appeared in front of the Action Dueling arena alongside the other students. There was a burly man standing outside of the entrance also. An army man of sorts. He seemed to be intimidating to some of the students there already, but Venwyn felt no such thing - he had faced Transformer that one time (note: faced = ran away from), so he could face anything.

Venwyn simply stood unmoving, staring at the instructor and awaiting for the course to begin.

Hayato noticed Haas's gesture and noticed Tsukiko's reaction, and shook his head at him and gave him a look that says "Moron, you are giving people the wrong idea" the look on his looked colder than intended but really he didn't want to talk at the moment, but noticed Shinrei getting up to hand his sister a ribbon noticing what Shinrei mentioned "Mother?" Hayato thought to himself, "if that's her ribbon... then that means..." Hayato came to a conclusion early but there was no question about it... Shinrei is hiding something. Hayato nodded at his sister "Go on... take it, be polite." Hayato said to catch her attention who in the meantime had finished her papercraft noticing the gesture that Shinrei brought her "Thank you... I'll take good care of it" Hayate's voice wasn't the usual cheerful voice she had the day before, instead it was a little more scared due to the dream affecting her slightly but it could just be her being a little nervous considering its one of the few times she is out of the house with permission "I do have to admit he is a bit scary" Hayate said softly when her hair was being done.

After the event of Tsukiko doing Hayate hair and the class started Hayate still worked on her paper crafts who strangely enough was able to recreate everything that the teacher was explaining in paper craft form without even noticing it while silently humming to herself
Hayato on the other hand sat there listening to the lesson and looking at his sister working on her paper crafts with a smile on her face, looking at his own papercraft putting it aside on his table sighing "That girl really doesn't stop does she?" not really talking to anyone he threw out in the open, hoping that Hayate doesn't get caught in the act.
"Tsukiko, you any good at that stuff?" Hayato asked looking at his paper craft "I know I'm not" Hayato added picking up his paper craft and putting it on her desk instead "its not as fancy as Hayate's paper craft but you can have it or give it Shinrei if you don't want it. doesn't matter to me" Hayato said with a rather bored uninterested tone in his voice as if he wants the class to be over already and looked at his D-Ceiver looking at every function "A friend list system huh, Tsukiko you plan on using this feature?" Hayato asked Tsukiko hoping she or Shinrei wont misunderstand it as him asking to add him to it.

After the lesson had ended Hayato and Hayate took care of their regular classes and dropped off some of their stuff in their room before going to the final class which was located at the action duel arena further outside, arriving at the action duel arena standing in front the entrance was a man in sandals with a look that screams i used to to be a soldier Hayato looked at the man again and thought to himself I wonder if he used to be in the army... or if he just likes dressing up like that looking at his samurai jacket he wore over his uniform though he'd be interested in a samurai and ninja showdown considering the amount of ninja's that seem to be present at the academy

Hayate on the other hand looked at the man standing tall and looked past the entrance and saw the insides even if she had a bad night sleep she wouldnt say no a nice run in the action duel arena it got her pretty excited it was why she signed up for action dueling after all
Hayato noticed his giddy sister and sighed "You don't know if we get to duel in there yet Sis." Hayato looked around for any familiar faces himself and noticed that ninja again. he was intrigued about him how he always seemed to show up everywhere without anyone noticing him, he wanted to approach him but really he didn't have a reason to bother him, ninja's are mainly solitary people but he could picture a duel of Honor and mystery but really he gets way too worked up when it comes to duels it break his cool way too many times, must be his father's blood showing "Hayate, You should register me into your friend list. that way you can call me when you need me. i can't be around you all the time" Hayato suggested to Hayate in turn Hayate asks something peculiar "when i do... can we duel again? it's been 5 years since we dueled against each other" Hayato looked at her sister once again "you can't duel a earth... it'll ruin your reputation, however i am your brother and i taught you most good tactics for dragon decks so you should be fine and who knows maybe we get to duel at this arena today" Hayato scratched his head "I sure hope class starts soon then, Maybe if i can't duel you, maybe Tsukiko or Shinrei can... but then again one person is a dorm higher and Tsukiko is still earth..." Hayato started to think of opponents for Hayate despite he could also duel someone else instead of her sister, if it does come to people volunteering he'd gladly do it, Maybe even a duel against his sister but he isn't counting on it.

"Thank you... I'll take good care of it" Hayate's voice wasn't the usual cheerful voice. Shinrei noticed something different about her usual voice. Normally he wouldn't care about these things, but Hayate reminded him of someone. He just couldn't place his finger on it. Part of him just wanted to stand up and ask her what was wrong, but he had remembered that he had sworn he would never let the history repeat itself. Decided there that it was best just for him to stay out of it. He looked at her with the usual casual cold look on his face that he would give to Tsukiko then said closing his eyes, "I don't really need it anymore. You can keep it if you want to. You'll find it more useful than I ever did." He concluded as he sighed softly knowing that it was best that he parted with it. These things he kept away as reminders were just starting to become one huge hindrance toward him.

"Tsukiko, you any good at that stuff?" Hayato asked looking at his paper craft. Tsukiko turned her face and made sure she was looking at Hayato before he said that. When he asked her if she was good at papercraft she didn't know how to answer that. Her brother turned his eyes toward her with the cold stare and the only reason she learned how to do it was because her mother taught her to do so. She made mostly the common papercranes, but they were still some of the finest. A memory had surfaced inside her that she recalled making them for a boy that she knew looked familiar but she couldn't think of it was. She couldn't see the boy's face clearly even though the memory seemed to be very real to her. It was like when the TV goes fuzzy or when the picture blurs really bad that it bleeds completely into the screen. "I uh..." She said trying to answer Hayato's answer, but the hesitation prevented her from answering his question. If she told him she wasn't it would be a lie, but that memory she had just a moment ago. Why did she have it? Who was that boy she was with?

Shinrei noticed that Tsukiko was being troubled with something. Even though he wanted to intervene it was probably better that he remained quiet about it. It was at that time where he heard a voice he didn't want to hear. He was hoping it wasn't who he thought it was, but he turned one eye toward the direction the voice came and surely enough it was that annoyance that confronted him earlier. He closed his eyes and though to himself deeply trying to ignore that person completely. Not him again... He's worse than that kid who caught my sister's attention. Fate is indeed the cruel mistress toward me...

That managed to shake Tsukiko's thought about Hayato's question he asked her earlier. She managed to push the thought out of her mind as she did too hear that voice that Shinrei heard too. She looked over and noticed it was some blonde boy that was hurdling the benches almost stampeding toward the direction they were all at. He looked at her for a moment then she saw him turn his eyes directly onto her brother and sighed to herself. This should be interesting... She thought to herself as awaited for the boy to finally decide to sit down. She didn't even notice that Angelo had thrown a giant paper-wad at the teacher since her attention was focused on this boy who wanted to affiliate himself with her brother. "Friend of yours?" Tsukiko asked casually as she tried to keep her attention off the troublemaker several seats down below her and the other guy that was approaching the sleeping teacher.

When Tsukiko asked if Leander was a friend of Shinrei's that made Shinrei feel sick. He didn't show the feeling toward anyone else, but to even mention the word and 'friend' or 'that kid' in the same sentence was rather revolting as he found it as an insult. He frowned in disgust as the mere mention of that scourge dare even being associated with himself. Since this was his sister he was talking to, he wouldn't answer her like he did anyone else if they dared try to ask him that same question. "I think you mean, fiend. As that is how I see this blight. That pathetic excuse is no associate of mine. He's a parasite that I can't rid myself of." He groaned at the end as he tried to ignore him until the class was over. Certainly didn't help since he knew the next class was just as pointless as this one and sadly worse than this insect that wanted to call itself his friend. Tsukiko covered her mouth for a second and giggled, because she thought her brother was being rather silly with the way he was acting. She looked over and noticed that some of the females thought it was cute how he continued to glower with that look on his face.

"Didn't expect to see you here. You taking Fusion?" Leander greeted Shinrei happily, wearing his practically trademarked goofy smile. Shinrei refrained from answering that question though he decided he would acknowledge this individual and hoping that doing so would get them to leave him alone for the rest of the day. He had to put up with this Action Duel class which he found rather pointless that he didn't want to have to tolerate this leach that wouldn't detach itself from him feeling it was draining the sanity from his mind. "Must you make it yourself an exhibition of thought that is the epitome of why I don't affiliate myself with the likes such as you to harass me all day? Your overly optimistic overconfident attitude is one genuine reason of why I do not converse with people like you hitherto I believe you need to go rectify your whole definition of what you declare as a friend, because I am certainly not one. I am your total stranger and I intend to keep it that way." Tsukiko was in awe as her brother had not said that much before to anyone then again this person might have tried to force the issue where he was now going to lay down the law. It was apparent that her brother didn't want anything to do with this individual, but before she could get a word in the class was over and it was off to Action Dueling which she found quite exciting. Her brother less so judging by that cast iron grimace on his face. It was time for her to get a chance to achieve her primary goal of trying to make her brother smile and show him that duels were more than just brute force. That you should enjoy duels and have fun no matter what the consequences were.

When class was over Tsukiko followed the Ray twins and her brother impressively decided to go along with them. She was guessing it was because he wanted to distance himself from that person who annoyed him earlier. On their way to the arena, they were stampeded by a couple of girls who wanted Shinrei's autograph. He decided to stop for a moment and sign their autographs and told them to go on ahead, but Tsukiko decided she would wait for him. She had to keep an eye on him to make sure he wasn't going to try to ditch the Action Duels class, because she knew how exactly stubborn he was. When he was done signing their autographs he decided to make his way accompanied by his sister and the Ray twins if they decided to wait for him to the arena.

Tsukiko noticed a very large sturdy well built heavyweight that looked like he was a professional wrestler. Wow, that guy had to be as tall as a skyscraper, but not as high as this scary person people call Transformer. That name kind of pertained toward her interest since she wanted to know why they would call a person Transformer in the first place? She had heard the rumors that he could transform your limbs into broken ones, but to her those were only rumors. She had no actual evidence if they were true or not and that she wasn't going to think about that right now. She decided she better pay attention not to make this muscular guy mad and hoped her brother was doing the samething.

"I sure hope class starts soon then, Maybe if i can't duel you, maybe Tsukiko or Shinrei can... but then again one person is a dorm higher and Tsukiko is still earth..." Hayato started to think of opponents for Hayate despite he could also duel someone else instead of her sister, if it does come to people volunteering he'd gladly do it, Maybe even a duel against his sister but he isn't counting on it. Shinrei closed his eyes as he found this Action Dueling a total waste of his time. His sister find it rather exciting. It not only showed the strength of the duelist, but it gave a whole new image toward how people see them. While her brother didn't think someone's image was that important that is where she differed. To her, appearance is a major asset when it comes to dueling because you want people to remember you. The way her brother duels is just ruthless power and has no real beauty to it. It's just one monster against another and to the stronger the spoils. She was tired of that duel motto and liked the idea of Action Duels because it could showcase many aspects about dueling and also could provide the audience with a lot more entertainment. This is what she needed to make her brother see that dueling wasn't just about power and he shouldn't just rely on his own power to win. She also wanted to make it clear to him that dependency on others was a strength and not a weakness like he thought.

"Dueling is all about power, strategy and the strength of your deck. I don't need to grandstand on some master stage to showcase my own talent. This class is a total waste of my time. If you can find one thing useful I will find out of this class which will improve my dueling skill, I'd like to hear it. I don't really care about Entertainment Duels and I do not need the assistance of these trivial trump cards you call Action Spells and Traps. I will win with my own power without the dependency on such rubbish. That is true dueling. I would know, but I don't care if you know who I am or not. But go ahead and instill my mind with this nonsense you call Action Duels. I am a pragmatic individual who doesn't like to have his time wasted on this garbage." Tsukiko when she heard her brother say such words it made her frown. She immediately pulled out her fan and whacked him straight over the head with it really hard that it knocked him down. She then apologized for his actions looking in the teacher's direction, "Don't mind my brother, sir. He's just in a really bad mood. I think he's let some things that bother him go to his head. I will keep him under control and prevent him from making a further jerk of himself for the rest of the class. Please forgive his behavior. He may not seem like a good person, but deep down he is. I apologize for his impudence on his behalf. Please accept my apology." She said looking at the teacher with her innocent eyes wanting to get her brother pardoned for his poor attitude just a moment ago. She knew that Shinrei was just talking out of anger and that he didn't really mean what he said. Still, to say it like he did she knew he needed to choose his words better.

"Oowwww, dammit that thing again..." He paused pointing at her huge white fan before he continued. "Don't you ever leave that thing in your room?" Shinrei complained as he pulled himself up after Tsukiko knelt down to help him instead of bending over so some pervert could see what was underneath her skirt. When he was finally lifted up by her he abruptly focused his attention immediately on her where she had one of those motherly looks and wagged her finger at him, where Tsukiko also shook her head in disgust over what she just heard Shinrei say. "Shinrei, I am ashamed of you. I cannot believe you would be so egotistical to say that. You just insulted the teacher and someone had to prevent you from making a further fool of yourself. I know you're angry and annoyed with that other kid that follows you around but that doesn't not give you an excuse to just take it out on a dueling course you dislike. Sure you wouldn't do it in Fusion Summoning since that is useful toward you, but when it comes to dueling that involves enjoying yourself well you are just really a big time jerk when it comes to that."

Leander continued smiling as Shinrei gave his long rant of annoyance. Leander wasn't sure what to make of it, mainly because he couldn't understand what Shinrei was trying to say with all those long and confusing words. In addtion, in the middle of the long rant, Leander zoned out after realizing that he couldn't understand what Shinrei was saying, so he missed the second half of the speech that Leander probably would have understood. By the time Leander came back to his senses, Shinrei was done with his speech and class was already over. Leander thought he saw the white-haired girl looking at him oddly, but the thought quickly exited his mind as everyone moved on to the Action Dueling class.

Leander eventually found himself in what was apparently the Action Dueling arena, which looked far larger than the arena where the placement duels were. I wonder why the place is so large, Leander thought to himself as he looked up and around. Then his eyes focused on a large, well-built man in wooden sandals and sporting an army cut hairstyle. Leander assumed that the only person this man could be was the teacher, mainly because he was the only person who didn't look like a student.

Looking around again, Leander spotted Shinrei getting scolded by Tsukiko, and made the obvious decision to continue his frienship-making behavior. "Hey, there you are!" Leander said happily as he approached the two. "I didn't understand a thing you said earlier when you were making that speech of yours, but that's ok! I'm willing to listen again, because that is what friends do!" All of this Leander said proudly and with a smile on his face.

"Oh, wait! I just realized!" Leander said suddenly, a shocked expression on his face. "I never introduced myself! I've been calling you my friend all this time, but we never even knew each other's names! How could I be so stupid???" Leander fell on his knees in shock, then quickly recovered. Leander put his hand behind his head and laughed, saying, "Oh well, we can start now!" Getting back up on his feet, Leander extended a hand to the two white-haired siblings, then said cheerfully, "My name is Leander Xenovia! Nice to meet you two!"

"These basic lessons are so freaking boring and dull...if I wasn't aware of how to fusion summon a monster I'd deserve to be placed in the dark dorm and locked up in the deepest end. It's so simple. Read the card then get the materials then use the polymer card or one of it's variations. At least it was better than English...do I look like a Shakespeare character or something? I look retarded but I'm not speaking in broken out of style dialect." Andre thought to himself silently as he neared the entrance to their next class alongside his brother Ben. The two had met up outside of the classroom. It felt like he was entering a world he left behind a long time ago. Action dueling, and turbo dueling were beneath him. He wasn't so stuck up show off who had something to prove. All the other two courses added were vague obstacles that proved to be a major pain in the ass and he never understood why card games like duel monsters were so god damn better on god forsaken special vehicles. It was like something out of a circus act and only the red necks of the duel society really liked them. "Oh look at me I can ride a motorcycle AND duel at the same time! Bah what a load." Andre spit on the ground as Ben looked at his younger brother with indifference. "Well I don't hate it like you do but hey if people like something more power to it. Me? I like to stand firmly with my feet on the ground." Ben stated as he went to meet their teacher by the entrance as Andre fiddled with his scarf some more. He was already loathing the piece of cloth.

Camryn shook the proferred hand. "Nice to meet ya, Angelo." After a silence of a few seconds, she said "Sooo... when does everyone else show up?"

Naturally, after that everyone started arriving. First was some ninja-looking guy who just appeared in front of them and stood there motionlessly. Then a pair who looked like twins came up, though Camryn was having trouble discerning their genders; they both looked incredibly androgynous. After that, another pair of siblings arrived, with the guy saying some drabble about "Hurr nurr this is a waste of my time" before his sister smacked him to the ground with a giant fan. Camryn couldn't help but giggle at that.

Then some really hyper kid came up and started talking to the guy that got smacked and acted really theatrical about... something. Camryn couldn't quite understand him at the speed he was talking. Finally, she noticed Ben walking up next to a guy in a scarf that looked like his brother. Sure are a lot of sibling pairs here, Camryn thought. She went up to greet Ben. "Heya Ben! How was your first day?"

"Already finding a girl friend on your first day here Ben? Not surprising..." Andre said with a smug grin as Ben punched him in the shoulder as the elder brother resisted the urge to call him a...unsuitable for school word to his face. "Sorry this is...Andre, my younger brother and apparently smartass. not sure if you heard of him. He was the guy who played that spooky scary song on his harmonica during his entrance exam." Ben said with a firm resolved voice as to not degrade his brother anymore and not scare off Cam. "So wassup? How's your day going? Boring on my end so far. Ran into frenchy again and fusion class wasn't anything spectacular on my end. I haven't met anyone new here. Everyone seems to be sticking to themselves so I can't get a word in without forcing myself into a conversation and that's not the guy I am. At least it's a decent day out. I even managed to get in some road work this morning. In case you don't know road work is a boxer's term for jogging and or running to build up stamina and endurance. Got to keep myself strong and healthy some way or another." Ben said as Andre looked at the girl in front of him. "Before you ask yes he always acts like the friendly bumpkin from the city. He'd go well in that one high school musical movie I heard about." Andre said sarcastically as Ben glared at him. "Oh yeah I bet you would KNOW ALL ABOUT high school musicals Broody Mc Brood. But just for your information I happen to be a fine singer. Just like our cousin Erika." Ben said with a grin to Andre who's eyes widened a little bit and he became silent at the mention of their cousin.

Megan woke up with a snort to find everyone else in the class had already left and the dull English teacher was staring at her lifelessly. Couldn't he even get mad? Whatever no skin off her back. Shaking her head to clear it she walked into the hallway and checked her D-ciever. Action Dueling hm? Right now hm? After a bit of hard running Megan came into view of the building and the group gathered around it and had quickly arrived with everyone else, albeit slightly more sweaty than anyone else. Good start. Looking around it seemed mostly everyone was in conversation waiting for class to start. Seemed quite a few people were taking the action dueling course.

Megan sidled next to a nervous looking girl that was sweating slightly seemingly almost cracking under the pressure of the intimidating military dude that was supposed to be their instructor. "You gonna be alright there? You got that deer in the headlights look." Megan asked somewhat concerned, but using it as more of a conversation starter. The little hat she had made Megan think of a detective, sort of like some sleuther or something. Course that would be silly, no one like that would be here. Probably, Megan thought after briefly glancing at one of the 'ninjas' that used smoke bombs all the time. All kinds.

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Ethel was about to stab this guy with a pair of scissors, considering how increasingly annoying they were getting. What the heck did it matter the deck Ethel had worked well together? She basically took it because what she DID want was already gone, and is now left with the scraps. Still, the boy had also felt the need to comment on her placement duel which was a little amusing. What, is he so jealous of her that she got Light and he was in Wind? That'd be hilarious. "Of course my duel went well. Unlike you, I didn't try to goof around." Ethel leaned back and watched Angelo prop up a paper ball, adding the quick comment of "Bad idea." right before they threw it. Predictably, the teacher caught in and spotted the perp, who was nearly put into detention on his first day. Ha! Served him right. "Lesson's about to start. But for the record..." Ethel closed her notebook, shifting her eyes to Angelo the first time. "...This deck wasn't even my first or second choice. And your Dragunities do everything except for work together, your tamers just enslave the dragons for their own uses."

With that, Ethel finally turned her attention back to the class. She hadn't seen or heard of a fusion yet, but quickly picked up what the teacher said. Seemed like a simple enough concept, though there's probably people out there that'd screw it up all the time. From out of nowhere the girl pulled a sheet of paper, alongside a pen, and proceeded to jot down notes in the lesson itself. She was also about the only one bothering with that.

Haas, on the other hand, was getting no friendship from any side. Tsukiko was shifting around in her seat uncomfortable and Hayato gave them a stare that could fight off Death himself. What'd the boy do wrong? Didn't he just congratulate them on becoming friends? His head tilted a bit at the both of them, expression shifting to one of confusion. Did his gesture maybe come across wrong? He was about to do something else, but then from behind, Haas heard the word 'Detention' being dropped. Oh no, did he screw up big time?! The boy turned his head around to see... The teacher talking about someone else entirely. Oh. Well... At least Haas was safe now? The lesson decided to start soon after, Haas pulling out a few sheets of paper to try and remember the stuff he'd see here for later. Real confusing stuff to him...

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When those other classes had ended, Haas walked out practically a zombie. His eyes were dull and unhappy, shoulders were slumped and his back hung forward. Seemed to be in a terrible mood for one reason or another. The fact Action Dueling was miles away from their current location didn't help either, the elevator being a slow moving hunk of junk that stopped at practically every floor just to pick up a few students. They... They should've taken the stairs. There was an equally unhappy girl there who looked rather annoyed at having a certain someone stalk her the whole day.

After the eternal elevator ride, Haas made his way through the crowds going in all kinds of directions to make his way over to the arena everyone expected him to be at. Or, at the very least, the teacher. Much to nobody's surprise, practically everyone was there already. He spotted Hayato and Hayate, as well as Shinrei and Tsukiko, all standing together again. Eh. Might've been best to just leave those alone, especially after someone else was already running up to them to bother the particularly grumpy one. The boy would've said something, had Shinrei not gone off on a tangent out of nowhere right in front of the teacher's face. Even through the burning sun Haas felt a wave of cold running across his spine, caused by a girl who had just placed her hand on his shoulder. "Stop standing there. Go." Ethel walked by, continuing down the path to the arena. What the hell was THAT for? Haas was wa- oh. They kinda stood still in the middle of the road, didn't they?

Though that wasn't going to be the only time Haas would get chills down his spine today. The army man in front of the front door started to show signs of movement, slowly bringing their gaze down upon the rows of students gathered up. "I abide by FIVE rules to dueling." they slowly started off, pointing one finger to Angelo.

"Rule number ONE, BE POLITE! You have obviously yet to learn. Those who can not be polite have no business in this school." Finished with lecturing Angelo, they pointed at another student. Shinrei.

"Rule number TWO, BE RESPECTFUL! Those who are not open for others, and those who can not see any way besides their own, are doomed to fail and fall into a downwards spiral. If you truly have no business here, pack your things and leave." Shinrei had his turn to be chewed out, before another person got pointed at. This time, it was Maisy.

"Rule number THREE, BE BRAVE! If you can not face a challenge that looks even slightly scary, you can not ever reach greatness." Now that she had been lectured, the finger pointed at Hayato.

"Rule number FOUR, BE PATIENT! Those who do not have the time to wait have not the time to think things through, and shall never succeed." Finally coming to the final rule, his hand shifted to point towards Andre of all people.

"And my final rule, rule number FIVE! ENJOY WHAT YOU DO! A duel has to be taken seriously, but if you can not enjoy your duel, you will lose more than you will win when it truly matters! Only by enjoying what it is you do can you truly give it your all!" Finishing up his lecture, the large man brought the muscled arm back into the cross formation firmly planted on his chest. "I am your instructor, Snipes Crosshair. But you will all refer to me as COLONEL, do you copy? Before we go in, I will instruct you on ACTION DUELS!"

Snipes proceeded to give a quick overview of how an action duel is played for the next ten minutes, in the scorching heat of the desert. This dialogue does not appear, almost as if some overseeing force was too lazy to write it out. "ATTENTION! I will need some volunteers for a live demonstration. WHO INTENDS TO SHOW THESE MAGGOTS HOW IT'S DONE?"

Vincent had let out the largest sigh of relief upon realising the teacher wasn't as bad as his imagination had hyped her up to be. Returning to his seat, he viewed the other students with his eyes. Each and every single person had a story to tell of their own kind. Some of the story's might be similar but no two story's would be exactly the same. Of course nobody had a story like Vincent's. First day got kissed by a guy and saw a lady's panties not that he didn't mind the latter as such, yet he wouldn't tell anyone he liked it. Nobody really needed to know about his closet pervertedness especially with the new rumour floating around his head. Never the less all these people sitting in this room could be seen as candidates for friendship. Except maybe all of those that heard the rumour. Vincent pouted in annoyance, Why the hell was it so hard to make friends all the time. He had two friends. A French guy whom wasn't as versed on the culture here as he should of been. Then a slightly weird girl whom seemed to have little to no shame. "I guess weird people attract weird people" Vincent murmured to himself under his breath as the Fusion Lesson continued in full swing.

Throughout the entirety of a lesson that Vincent already understood, he was glancing at Ethel. Making sure she was either writing or talking to avoid drawing her attention. Still he wondered why he had a odd attraction to the girl. It wasn't love god no, he was here for card games not for love. Yet he saw a little of himself inside the antisocial blue haired girl. She seemed to dislike other peoples attention and the general company of annoyances. Vincent understood that, Yet he didn't seem to understand why he felt guilty of something upon his first viewing of her. Maybe he had done something to her in a alternate reality that crossed the barriers between dimensions. Probably because he had glanced at her skirt for too long. He regretted that. She did seem pretty darn strong though even though she used a deck that clash with her character. Guess she was too late for the one she wanted. Vincent was completely unsure in his analysis of Ethel he could be 100% wrong and not know it. Noting the lesson was going to end soon he quickly wrote down a few notes of his own. In order to pass the lesson without getting a detention for not doing work. Vincent exited the Fusion room as one of the later people. His next lesson was an English lesson, perhaps the most boring subject to have ever been added to a curriculum in the entire existence of this plane.

English was as to be expected. Boring in its entirety, especially considering that the disinterested teacher from the day before happened to be teaching it. Vincent almost fell asleep during that lesson not once not twice but 7 times, only brought back to being awake by the fear of having a detention on the second day of school. A fear which would cause his parents to hound him with annoyance. God help him if he was actually upfront to them about his perverted thoughts, probably get the worst beating of his life from his mother and his fathers congratulations. Still he didn't want to go through that route ever, life here wasn't a game that could just be reset or rewound through save files. Never the less English ended eventually after what seemed like hours of thinking and of writing down pointless things.

Vincent pulled out his D-Ciever, His eyes viewing the next lesson with a bit of childlike glee present within them. The next lesson was Action Duelling. Something he had only seen on the TV as Entertainment Duels. Vincent began walking down towards the Action Duelling Arena. Walking down the staircase Vincent moved with great haste. His mind racing with the concept to participate in a Duel where the monsters where actually solid and could be ridden. Standard duelling was his first pick for a course but... Action duelling was his close second, Vincent could soon be seen running across the Desert towards the Action duelling arena, he looked awfully silly with the backpack hanging lopsidedly on his back. But he had arrived and he was ready for the lesson with a look that shone with childlike eminence. He was the Chaos ambassador, Inside his mind he had already formulated a million ways to prove the worth of chaos with his mediocre deck. Shame someone would be trying to kill him while he attempted to show it.

He had arrived midway through the Army looking teachers speech. Whom had had large muscles and a frame that reeked of army training. It made Vincent promptly disliking of the appearance. Though the teacher had values Vincent could get behind. Vincent listened to the lecture of a few students. Their names Vincent promptly noted down along with each of their individual appearances in the crevice of his mind. The teacher then said something that made Vincent pause and stop. he wanted Volunteers for an action duel? Vincent couldn't refuse. Rising his hand into the air he said something that he could regret. "Sir I would like to volunteer for this Action duel so that I can partake in the fun of it" Vincent said his eyes seeming halfway between a blood lust and excitement.

You could almost feel that he was going to murder something.

Nathaniel stood with the other students outside the Action Duel arena, panting heavily. It was his first real day of school, so he decided to dress up in something a little nicer than usual. Underneath his brown blazer symbolizing his Earth Dorm status, he wore a nice white button-up shirt with a thin black tie. It may have been unoriginal, but it was a classic combination for a reason. He also wore a pair of brown, loose-fitting trousers, and a pair of sneakers to complete the look. He thought he looked pretty nice in the morning, but he realized what a mistake he made when he had to walk through the desert and stand out there as the instructor gave his spiel. He gave a silent vow to only wear t-shirts from now on.

As he looked back on the rest of his day, it was fairly uneventful. Fusion Summoning class was pretty boring, especially since the first day was just going through basics. He already read Extra Deck Monsters For Dummies, so he was doodling throughout that entire class. As heretical as the thought may be, it was actually English class he paid the most attention to, although that might have just been because the instructor made it so difficult. But as soon as that was over, he bolted out of the classroom like the rest of the students, feeling 110% ready for that Action Dueling class. Then he stepped outside and it dropped to 80%, then 50%. By the time he actually got to the class, he just wanted to go back to the dorm and take a shower.

"ATTENTION! I will need some volunteers for a live demonstration. WHO INTENDS TO SHOW THESE MAGGOTS HOW IT'S DONE?"

That snapped him back to his senses. He thought about volunteering himself, but then he remembered how his placement duel went yesterday and decided to keep to himself.



Nathaniel then saw a student with brown hair shoot his hand into the air with a fervor. Nathaniel gave a small smile. Passion was everything when it came to an Entertainment Duel. If this kid gets picked, then they were in for a show.

Angelo smiled as everyone was coming into class to join the action dueling course and soon saw the teacher finally talk and he pointed to Angelo about being polite and Angelo scratched his head confused "I thought I was being polite" Angelo said simply as the teacher went on to talk to the others giving them each different lectures true to his military persona. Then the teacher asked for some volunteers to show them how its done and honestly Angelo wasn't sure if he should or shouldn't try it because after all Angelo was meant to be a turbo duelist but turbo dueling was a form of entertainment dueling in it of itself. So Angelo sighed a little and raised his hand "Ill do it if nobody else wants to, might as well try it Angelo said smiling

Mary was dejected by Venwyn's reaction to her. They hadn't seen each other in years, but, it was understandable. Boy was always going on about being a ninja. Despite being slightly lower than everyone else, Mary watched the Fusion Summoning class with intent. She wanted to learn about Fusion Summoning more, despite not having a Fusion Summoning deck. She wanted to learn about Fusion Summoning, despite reading all about it only a month before.

As the lesson ended, Mary rose from her broken seat. She looked at her Duel Transciever. More classes. More to learn. It was actually starting to scare Mary. So many classes. So much to learn. Despite this, she managed to keep her head on and learn about everything that the classes set out to teach in the first few days.

Finally, it was time for the last class; Action Dueling. Mary didn't quite know of action dueling. It wasn't one of the things she crammed for. It would be necessary, she thought. She went to the class and there she saw the teacher.

The teacher reminded her of a video game that she saw some kids playing; NEET Lighter, or something like that.

She listened to the man speak about his values. It was, unexpected, to say the least. Luckily, Mary wasn't chewed out. She then heard the man say his name: Snipes Crosshair. What sort of donkus would come up with a name like that? Despite this, Mary decided that she would keep her opinion about the name to herself and just call the man Colonel. The Colonel then asked for volunteers. Mary, wanting to see what this action duel stuff was about, raised her hand. "I'll volunteer for the duel." She said in a pleasant tone. She then noticed the boy near her had a excited bloodlust. Mary ignored him, wondering why anyone playing a card game would even feel that way.

Andre and Ben decided to remain silent as the teacher gave his instructions. The rather strangely named teacher was flat out military drill Sargent and Andre didn't appreciate that but he figured action duels were in need of some strict discipline. It was always when additional fields were put into place that things went horribly wrong and people got pissy. And with the solid fields the chance for being hurt was even more motive for Andre not to shove his Archfiends into play. Ben didn't volunteer like the others as, while he enjoyed being in the spotlight, he didn't want to be made an example of in an type of dueling he had little experience with. He always did the standard dueling type and that's what he intended to do afterward. You didn't need to ride like in turbo dueling, or do anything fancy to win a crowd you simply needed to pump yourself up and set the air on fire with some fancy words and some good dueling. But he could see the why people would want to see some more fast paced dueling as some people WANTED to see some action not some fancy card playing. Plus it took some skill to play WITH your cards on an actual field and think of a strategy at the same time and one mistake on either end could be the end of you. Besides how would his cards really work out in this situation. He had a bunch of knights on board and none of them were archers and there were plenty of monsters that could fly. It seemed like a bad idea all around.